John Fields

Experience

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  WTS Bureau Systems

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2004

  Account Manager
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  Galaxy Systems

  Mar 2004 - Aug 2005

  IT Lead

  Technical Services company turn-around effort for first 6 months. Networking and Linux Principal with website programming R&D for remaining time.

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  Real Estate EXPO

  Aug 2005 - Sept 2008

  Dir of Technology

  Planned, developed and deployed all technology and infrastructure for 75 person real estate company. Included physical plant, converged network, VOIP phone system, internet infrastructure and initiatives, desktop and laptop life cycle management, light graphics work and of course, photo retouching. You name it, I got it done.

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  Conversant Technologies, Inc.

  Oct 2008 - Sept 2011

  Dir. of Development

  12 year old privately held company updating their entire technology portfolio. Moving from embedded DOS and Microsoft based platforms to embedded linux and web focused (with linux backends). Strong use of custom Asterisk to leapfrog current capabilities.Working in Open Source and Loving It!

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  Global Tel*Link

  Nov 2011 - Nov 2012

  Linux Specialist

  Hey, wait a minute! My paycheck comes from another company now...? CTI was acquired last year, I am keeping the old stuff running while ramping up on the new corporate culture and products. Eventually I will transition to an exisiting team.

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  Coastal Logic

  Dec 2012 - May 2013

  Solutions Lead

  Responsible for Software technology direction, development and production, product quality and support experience. Supervise developers in-house and off-shore.

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  Citi

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2016

  VP Cloud Engineering

  Architect-ing Chef at Enterprise scale, and loving it!

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  Capital One

  Aug 2016 - Oct 2023

  Senior Software Engineer

  Improving Banking for Good! is the company motto, and we strive to make that double entendre real. Currently focused on mentoring and expanding the DevOps culture as we move beyond Cloud First to leveraging Ai.